Hello Family!

I'll catch you up on our family for the year... since we hardly correspond with anyone. *shame*


David and I celebrated our 20th anniversary this past year by spending most of August visiting the Greek islands, Mykonos, Rhodes, Delos, as well as Athens, the island of Cyprus, Turkey, and Egypt. It was an enlightening and beautiful trip with rich food, wine, culture and magnificently diverse people.

Adara, Isaac and Elijah held down the fort the entire time their parents were gone. They cleaned, washed laundry, cooked meals, went to the movies several times, spent a fortune on Cold Stone ice cream and basically had a huge party for the last few weeks of summer with no parents in the way.

Adara 18 now and is probably the busiest of us all. She is the Editor in Chief of her school newspaper again this year. She is on the Drama Council (historian), a lead technician for the school, Stage Manager for Don’t Drink the Water, school photographer, and played a lead in Once on this Island. She competed in the Utah Shakespearean Festival H.S. competition, just got back from New York with a troupe on Broadway, is writing and publishing a novel, taking all AP and Honors classes, and still managing to get 4.0 in her classes. Adara will be going to college next year at the U of U in Anthropology and then she hopes to go to Brown University to pursue her Ph.D. in Archaeology. She has changed the written form of her name to LaTour.

Isaac is almost 13 now and a World of Warcraft nut lately. He cut his hair in a crazy, hot-pink Mohawk during the summer, but it didn’t last long before it bothered him and he shaved himself bald. As usual he charms everyone with his dimples and has girls chasing him all over the place. He still loves sports and swimming and is a daredevil who scares his parents to death. He acts tough, but he’s a real teddy bear at the core. He loves to cook, loves Hawaii and loves kitties. His voice has dropped wayyyy down and I keep wondering who the strange man in our house is.

Elijah is almost 11 years old and continues to out-game the entire family in game creativity and diversity. He loves everything from computer games to board games to card games to roll-playing games played on foot. He plays chess with a kid next door and they get very serious about it. Elijah is extremely focused and intellectual as well as tenderhearted and loving. He is growing tall and is taller than Isaac now. He loves pasta, reading comic books and cats. He gets lots of As and is a great student.


Dave has started his own investment company and has been making a lot of big decisions lately. He continues to work as a V.P. over a group of stock-analysis software engineers at Neovest (a division of JP Morgan). He bought a fabulous tuxedo for the anniversary trip, and I think he looks amazing in it.




I ran the Portland Marathon on October 7th. I made it all 26.2 miles, as did my aunt who ran it with me. I'm now at the University of Utah pursuing a Ph.D. in Behavioral Neuroscience Research with cross-studies in Psychoneuroimmunology and I love it. Next autumn Adara and I will be driving to school together. Yay!


… And that sums up our past year, leaving out most mundane things. Dave and I are taking Adara to Egypt in four weeks to celebrate her graduation. We'll be doing a cruise down the Nile and other sight-seeing for two weeks.